Hi there!
I use GRUB2, installed by Artix in all my machines, which are all configured as multiboots with several distros. I have never failed to boot any distro with this set-up, which was not the case with GRUB2 installed by some other distros.
Because of this Artix has become my default everyday distro, and I am happy with it, in fact I think Artix gives me the somehow "nicest" OS experience.
One of my machines has for a couple months been unable to blank the screen when being inactive.
I have trying inactivating xfce4-screensaver and set up in the power Manager, as well ac inactivating blanking in Power Manager and setting it up in xfce4-screensaver, and in both cases I logged out and then back in just to make sure. I had already tested without logging out, before. None of these worked.
I searched this forum and found 16 threads upon searching <screensaver xfce>, read all of them, tried a few ideas still to no avail.
Before and during my reading I collected some info, as below:
~$ xset q
DPMS (Display Power Management Signaling):
Standby: 2940 Suspend: 0 Off: 0
DPMS is Disabled
~$ pacman -Ss light-locker
world/light-locker 1.9.0-5
A simple session locker for LightDM
$ ps -ef | grep -E 'screen|lock'
root 54 2 0 okt22 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/R-kblockd]
arthur 4001 30486 0 15:32 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --colour=auto -E screen|lock
root 13215 2 0 00:34 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/0:0H-kblockd]
arthur 30389 30207 0 14:00 ? 00:00:00 xfce4-screensaver
~$ D
$ xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-manager -lv
/xfce4-power-manager/blank-on-ac 6
/xfce4-power-manager/dpms-enabled true
/xfce4-power-manager/dpms-on-ac-off 0
/xfce4-power-manager/dpms-on-ac-sleep 49
/xfce4-power-manager/lock-screen-suspend-hibernate false
/xfce4-power-manager/presentation-mode true
/xfce4-power-manager/show-tray-icon false
After reading through our forum I went out through a search engine and after a while found a thread on another forum, and tried:
esprimoq556:[arthur]:~$ xset dpms 60 120 180
esprimoq556:[arthur]:~$ xset q
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000
XKB indicators:
00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: off 02: Scroll Lock: off
03: Compose: off 04: Kana: off 05: Sleep: off
06: Suspend: off 07: Mute: off 08: Misc: off
09: Mail: off 10: Charging: off 11: Shift Lock: off
12: Group 2: off 13: Mouse Keys: off
auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 20
auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
fadfffefffedffff
9fffffffffffffff
fff7ffffffffffff
bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
Pointer Control:
acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: no allow exposures: no
timeout: 180 cycle: 180
Colors:
default colormap: 0x22 BlackPixel: 0x0 WhitePixel: 0xffffff
Font Path:
built-ins
DPMS (Display Power Management Signaling):
Standby: 60 Suspend: 120 Off: 180
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
And now blanking of the screen is working.
I am aware that this fix is not persistent, but I can live with that if necessary. Perhaps I may finally learn how to run a script upon booting - will be thankful for tips on that, perhaps a link?
But it would be even better if I could reach a persistent solution. The articles I read on our forum have led me to accept that there have been structural conflicts within XFCE, but on the other hand this was the only among my machines, so far to present this annoying problem.
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